"... After 20 years in full time ministry, I have come to know that there are other areas of the ministry we have not properly taught our people. I read a statistic about our country Nigeria recently: it says that the poverty level in Nigeria is 70%, that means people who cannot live above a dollar a day. That is the UNO figure, though the Nigerian government says it is lower than that. However, that is scandalous!

That is not the only thing: the statistic added that it has not changed in the last ten years!

Now what I ask is: have not more Churches come up in the last ten years? Have we not seen more crusades in the last ten years? Have we not seen more mega-Churches in the last ten years? That means that the Church has not been teaching the proper gospel. If the poverty level is not reducing, then we pastors are teaching nothing. Or may be the message we teach is not complete..."

"... I have seen many areas where people are taught half truth: miracles, miracles, miracles. I believe in miracles but Jesus was an entrepreneur before he entered the ministry. Joseph, his father was also a carpenter. It was a family business. Paul was an entrepreneur. Paul demystified it and showed us that you cannot live on the ministry solely.

So I think we have not taught our people well in this Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity. We need to teach our people how to start and nurture businesses, how to use money with integrity, how to multiply the little they have, how to be patient.

These prosperity, miracles messages is fanning the flame of impatience in people. The people now think wealth happens only by the magic of prayer and no work. We need to let the people know that real enduring wealth is built over time. It is a gradual rise, not the one you get overnight like an armed robber..."